Sugar by Electricity.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2099, 19 December 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Sugar by Electricity.

AX entirely new process for refining sugar, electricity being the agent employed, is one of the latent discoveries. If the half that is claimed for it lie true it is also one of the most important that hns been made in the last hair of this century. The process is said to be .1 dry one throughout, dispensing altogether with broiling ajid the use of boneblack. Jt is claimed that no fcynip whatever is pioduced, the. whole product being hard sugar of nearly, if not quite, absolute purity — namely, IUU per cent, cane sugar,, per analysis. This result has been obtained from the lowest grades, the parcels treated ranging all the way from ten pounds to over; a ton in weight. The refined sugar is obtained within fonrhour* from the lirao the machinery is set. in motion, and the process is continuous, th& output of fine sugar being kept up so long as the raw matenal is fed in and the machinery kept in motion. The cost of the process is almost lidiculously low, being set nt not more than Bs. per ton, with a guaiantee that the loss will Hot be gicatcr than about one-half of 1 per cent. The cost of the requisite machinery, including power and theapparatus needed to put the su<mr into baircls, and the biuklingb lequircd to inclose the works, is estimated to be about £20,000 for an output of 1000 barrels eveiy twenty, four hours. — Chicana Tribune

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